SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:56
Mas todo esto se hace, para que se cumplan las Escrituras de los profetas. Entonces todos los discípulos huyeron, dejndole.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 26:56
Verse 56. But all this was done] This is probably the observation of the evangelist. See on chap. ii. 23. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.] O what is man! How little is even his utmost sincerity to be depended on! Jesus is abandoned by all!-even zealous Peter and loving John are among the fugitives! Was ever master so served by his scholars? Was ever parent so treated by his children? Is there not as much zeal and love among them all as might make one martyr for God and truth? Alas! no. He had but twelve who professed inviolable attachment to him; one of these betrayed him, another denied him with oaths, and the rest run away and utterly abandon him to his implacable enemies! Are there not found among his disciples still, 1st.
Persons who betray him and his cause? 2dly. Persons who deny him and his people? 3dly. Persons who abandon him, his people, his cause, and his truth? Reader! dost thou belong to any of these classes?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 56. But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled , etc.] Some have thought these to be the words of the evangelist, making this remark upon what was said and done; but by what both Mark and Luke record, ( Mark 14:49 Luke 22:53), they appear to be the words of Christ himself; who observes this, partly to make himself, as man, easy under the treatment he met with; and partly, to fortify the minds of his disciples against offence at it; and also to throw conviction, or confusion, into the minds of his enemies. The Scriptures of the prophets he refers to, as having, or about to have, by this conduct, their accomplishment, were such, as regarded the betraying him by Judas, the taking him in this secret, private, insidious, yet violent manner; in all which he showed great meekness, calmness, and submission, as ( Psalm 41:9 Lamentations 4:20 Isaiah 53:7,8). As also what respected the scattering, and hasty flight of his disciples from him, ( Zechariah 13:7), which in the next clause is shown to be accomplished. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled ; not only went away from him, and left him alone, as he foretold they would, ( John 16:32), but they ran away from him in a precipitant manner, like timorous sheep, the shepherd being about to be smitten; and they fearing, lest Peters rash action should be imputed to them all, and they suffer for it; or lest they should be laid hold on next, and bound, as their master was, or about to be. Every thing in this account is an aggravation of their pusillanimity, and ingratitude; as that they were the disciples of Christ that forsook him, whom he had called, and sent forth as his apostles to preach his Gospel; and to whom he had given extraordinary gifts and powers; who had forsaken all and followed him, and had been with him from the beginning; had heard all his excellent discourses, and had seen all his miracles, and yet these at last forsake him, and even all of them: John the beloved disciple, that leaned on his bosom, and Peter, that professed so much love to him, zeal for him, and faith in him; the three that had just seen him in his agony and bloody sweat, and everyone of them left him; not one stood by him, and this too, after they had had a fresh instance of his power, in striking the men to the ground, that came to take him; and when he was sueing for them with their enemies, to let them go peaceably and safely: so that they had no need to have fled in such haste; and to leave him then, in the midst of his enemies, in his great distress and trouble, was very unkind and ungrateful: and to this account of the evangelist, pretty much agrees what the Jews themselves say of it; for they report f1584 , that when his disciples saw that he was taken, and that they could not fight against them, hylgrb wxwry , they ran away on foot, and lift up their voice and wept greatly.
Though they also pretend, that the citizens of Jerusalem killed many of them, and that the rest fled to the mountain, which is false.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 47-56 - No enemies are so much to be abhorred as those professed disciples tha betray Christ with a kiss. God has no need of our services, much les of our sins, to bring about his purposes. Though Christ was crucifie through weakness, it was voluntary weakness; he submitted to death. I he had not been willing to suffer, they could not conquer him. It was great sin for those who had left all to follow Jesus; now to leave his for they knew not what. What folly, for fear of death to flee from Him whom they knew and acknowledged to be the Fountain of life!
Greek Textus Receptus
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